Show developments since sheriff harries of salt lake couty has been attempting to enforce the anti cigarette bill are rather amusing the latest thing in this connection con lection that has come to our attention is the big meeting in the orpheum theatre in salt lake city the last of the week in which standing room was at a and at which several speakers waxed eloquent on the damaging effect that freak legislation legi is and particularly that piece of the legislation I 1 is having on the state the infringement of personal persona liberties etc it is conceded that the so callec called southwick bill is not a good law because it has not aca accomplished the thing it was designed to but the limits to abich some of its opponents went at the meeting referred to are almost pitiably ridiculous redi culous of course its enforcement curtails certain liberties all laws do what they are made for and it is is a significant fact that the very people whose liberties are curtailed and anc who make the most fuss about them are t the he people who most ii infringe fringe upon the rights of in the absence of such laws or their enforcement the man who raves most A S yf f about ibe cigarette law taking away I 1 i his bis liberties biber ties nine times out of ten is i is the man who hesitate toi to force his second hand band smoke onto people who have to ride in the same car with him or to dine at the same I 1 cafe there is no doubt but that the present law should be amended but legislation to prohibit the sale of cigarettes to minors and to prohibit smoking in public offices public conveyances and other places where the public generally are concerned and the strict enforcement of such legislation is a safeguard to our future manhood and to the rights of those people who for one reason or another prefer neither first nor secondhand second hand smoke |